Konoha.

Uchiha clan land.

Shrouded in bright yellow light, in the underground laboratory, a teenager in a white hooded coat stood in front of the laboratory table, working diligently.

This teenager is none other than Shiraishi.

The Second Shinobi War ended with the end of the war between Konoha and Sunagakure, and after that, the countries entered a period of peaceful development and recovery.

The borders of the Fire Nation have also returned to their previous stability, and they have not been attacked by foreign ninjas.

But that was more than three years ago.

Life for more than three years was relatively uneventful.

Because I don't need to go to the battlefield, I spend more time in the village after completing the mission.

This also means that he has a lot more time spent researching, and he doesn't have to run back and forth on the ninja battlefield like that, constantly fighting with various enemies.

Compared with his research more than three years ago, his research progress is undoubtedly much more advanced.

Natural energy, immortal arts, tailed beast chakra, including the use of Yin and Yang Escape, are not comparable to three years ago.

The efficient use of natural energy means that he can carry out violent battles in a targeted manner.

For the powerful power of Konoha, it is not like more than three years ago, and there is still a little awe, which can be faced with a flat attitude.

Perhaps this is the so-called growth.

After all, while he is constantly improving, the village of Konoha is still the same as before, there are not many changes, but the number of ninjas in service has increased, and the military budget is also increasing year by year.

As the scale of ninjas continues to grow, it is estimated that the ninja villages in the surrounding neighboring countries are afraid of Konoha.

How long will this peace last? Will it be a year later, or will it be two years from now, and a new war will come again?

The only thing that is certain is that the time before the next attack on the Fire Country by Sand Hide will definitely not make Shiraishi wait too long.

At that point, he could truly get out of this boring village.

Although some people and some things cannot be parted, parting is also a stage that must be experienced in life.

"The human stage is finally complete, and now you can try to unravel the caged bird......"

After more than three years of hard work, the technology has become mature, and I dare not say that I am 100% sure, at least when there is an accident, it can also be interrupted in time so as not to damage life.

And for the success of this experiment, a total of eleven human bodies were consumed.

The experiment went so smoothly that Shiraishi felt incredible, and none of the eleven human bodies died, and only one of them had an accident, but he was also rescued by Shiraishi with superb medical skills.

It's as if natural energy could have replaced chakra as the body's vital energy.

Although it is not yet possible to dissect the difference between the two, as long as the caged bird can be solved, it is not too late to explore this secret later.

Shiraishi walked over to the bookshelf to the side, his eyes swept over the title of the book on it, and he reached out to rummage through it.

"I remember it was ......"

As he spoke, there was a movement on the floor next to him.

The head of the blackened clay man emerged from the ground, emitting a pale golden glow from the hole, staring at the white stone.

"Are you back? Thank you for your hard work. ”

Shiraishi stopped looking for the book and turned to look at the dirt man.

This is a 'puppet' created by himself based on the yin and yang attribute chakra, and then with natural energy as the core, plus some wonderful uses of the soul.

It was made inspired by tailed beasts.

Shiraishi gave it the name 'Shogun of the Earth'.

Because it is only half a year old now, it currently only has the ability to move freely in the earth and merge with the earth, and it belongs to the juvenile body.

Now he can help Shiraishi, only to communicate with his subordinates, to pass on objects, and as for the battle...... It can only be said that the future is promising.

The dirt man just stared at Shiraishi, as if waiting for Shiraishi's next order.

Shiraishi smiled bitterly a little, although it was successfully artificially made, but this guy's intelligence is also very worrying, and it can also be said to be dull and clumsy.

It is too complex to comprehend commands, and human relationships.

If he doesn't give him accurate orders, even Shiraishi, the creator, won't be able to communicate with it normally.

That's why it was given a 'promising future' evaluation.

"What did they ask you to bring back? Leave it to me. ”

Shiraishi ordered him.

The Clay Man had just finished staring at the White Rock Hollow.

The floor began to squirm, and a letter was spat out from it, along with a white humanoid creature.

"What is this?"

Shiraishi picked up the letter, but his eyes were fixed on the white humanoid creature, and his brow furrowed.

The dirt man didn't say anything, just made a dull noise and dived underground.

Shiraishi didn't expect this low-intelligence puppet to give any decent reaction, and it was still relatively qualified to use it as a communication tool.

Now it's just a tool for communication.

Shiraishi opened the letter and began to understand what had happened.

There are just two things mentioned above.

Akatsuki declined the offer.

The white humanoid creature lying on the ground was unknown, and while listening to him, he didn't know why he was eyeing his men, and then he was subdued and finally sent here.

"Refused? I wanted to expand the number of people in the organization, but forget it, it's the same to find someone else. ”

Xiao's refusal can be said to be reasonable, and Shiraishi doesn't feel anything to regret.

There are too many people who can be recruited, anyway, the lower limit of cultivation of natural energy is very low, even if the disabled person is equipped with a prosthetic, it can be used as a combat force, it is just a matter of strength and weakness.

However, with the foundation of ninja, after the strengthening of natural energy, the strength will be stronger than that of ordinary people.

The bigger problem is the unidentified corpse in front of you.

"This touch, and the life energy...... What is it? ”

Shiraishi stared at the white creature's corpse with a strange expression, not by the name of 'human', but by the name of 'thing'.

The structure of his interior is as simple as ...... It made Shiraishi think that it was just a shell with consciousness.

It was cold to the touch, like a corpse, but it was a little different.

A living dead?

"The weirdo staring at Xiao...... Does that Xiao have the rarity value of being targeted? ”

Some of the things that Shiraishi knows about are that the members of the organization are some teenage children, living in that difficult environment, which has created their strong will and courage to fight.

In the most clumsy way, they tried to save the whole country.

Xiao was founded about two years ago, when it was still a grass creation, and there was no specific name, and there were only three people in the organization.

After more than a year of development, it has become an organization of eight or nine people, and Xiao's name has also begun to circulate in recent months.

But it still doesn't change anything.

After all, why is such an organization so poor that it has some problems with its basic life being targeted?

Fighting within the Land of Rain?

Or don't other countries want an organization like Xiao to appear in the Land of Rain?

Shiraishi only thought about it for a moment, and then gave up thinking, he had as many things to deal with as a mountain, and there was no need to waste time on such things.

In any case, the affairs of other people's families have nothing to do with him.

What will become of Akatsuki's future, leave it to the unknown future to issue a verdict.

According to Shiraishi's prediction, Akatsuki's end will be very miserable.

Land of Rain...... and not suitable for development.

At least for now.

It is a territory where great powers are fighting, and unless the three great powers of fire, wind, and earth are willing to work together to establish a stable order, the land of rain will follow and become rich and peaceful.

But apart from fighting each other, the three major powers do not have this idea of building a stable order.

The people of that country, because of the perennial oppression, most of them have lost the fighting spirit to resist.

In this era, people are dying and fighting every day.

The way of human survival is to eat the strong.

The same is true of the country built by human beings, where the weak will be bullied, and the strong will have everything.

The Land of Rain is just one of the nations built by man.

Other than that, there is no more meaning to the country in these chaotic times.

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Early April.

The new round of graduates will come out of the ninja school and become a real ninja, who will write their own hot-blooded ninja life.

At the Konoha Ichiraku ramen shop, the Shuo Mao team celebrates here.

"It's too slow, it's a big day."

The black-haired girl in front of the ramen shop is slim and has a cold voice.

He wears a pitch-black off-the-shoulder tights on his upper body, and his hands are black gloves over his elbows, and on the back of his hands, there are extremely hard pieces of iron attached to them, which are special protective gear that can be used to resist kunai and ninja knives.

The lower body is wearing a short skirt, and there are black over-the-knee socks that can show off the shape of the legs, and the ninja bag is tied to the thighs with a belt, and the overall look is just right.

On the back of her black bodysuit, the Uchiha's fan logo is embroidered.

This girl is Ruri.

Compared to three years ago, she has also grown a lot, and now she is the stable second-in-command of the Shuo Mao team, a genius ninja who can be rumored to be in Konoha .

She was clasping her hands to her chest, with a cold face, as if she was very dissatisfied with Shiraishi's late arrival at this time.

"What's the matter, isn't the time just right?"

Another black-haired girl smiled and helped Shiraishi out of the siege.

This girl is Ayane.

Compared with Liuli, after three years, she has actually changed a little more.

For example, the figure.

For example, the chest.

Wearing a custom-made kimono with a pale white hem that does not reach the knee ensures the flexibility of the legs.

On her legs, she wears white over-the-knee socks of the same style as Ruri, and she doesn't carry a ninja bag on her thighs, so if she doesn't wear a forehead guard on her forehead, she doesn't look like a ninja at all.

But maybe her weapon was tied somewhere else.

"Has Mr. Shuomao arrived?"

Shiraishi didn't care about Ruri's dissatisfied attitude and asked about Shuomao.

He was carrying a gift bag with several gift boxes inside.

Because today is a special day.

"It's already here, I'm waiting for you."

"Really? It can't be helped, I have some things to deal with before, it would be nice to be able to catch up, and I didn't forget to bring the gift anyway. ”

As he spoke, Shiraishi lifted the gift bag in his hand and said with a smile.

Liuli's face looked a little better.

The three of them entered the Ichiraku ramen shop, where Shuo Shigeru was seated, and to his right was a boy with the same white hair, about five or six years old, with a face mask on his face and a ninja forehead guard on his forehead.

It is proved that the boy, who is only five or six years old, has officially graduated from the ninja school and is a qualified Konoha ninja.

"Long time no see, Kakashi."

"Long time no see, Shiraishi-senpai."

The boy was none other than Kakashi Hagi, the son of Sakumo.

After Shiraishi took the initiative to greet him, he immediately responded.

"Here, Kakashi, this is a gift to congratulate you on becoming a shinobi."

Shiraishi placed a gift box in Kakashi's hand.

Kakashi took it solemnly and thanked Shiraishi.

After Shiraishi sat down, he said with great emotion: "Speaking of which, this is really powerful, Kakashi, although you are only five years old, you have already graduated from the ninja school and become an official shinobi." This is the fastest time to become a shinobi since the establishment of our Konoha Ninja School. ”

Kakashi responded lightly: "Actually, it's okay, the main thing is that the graduation exam is not a little difficult." ”

This is his natural attitude, and the difficulty of the graduation exam is simply not equal to nothing for him.

Although many people say that he is a genius and think that it is normal for him to have such achievements, they will always ignore the hard work and sweat that he puts in every day after his death.

Those people will only judge others with their own shallow concepts, and what they think is correct, and they can't see the efforts and sweat of others, so they can use the word 'genius' to perfunctory.

Shiraishi knew that Kakashi was not modest, but was simply narrating his own personal opinions.

That's right, I entered a ninja school at the age of four, and now I graduated from a ninja school at the age of five...... The results of both theory and practical courses are the first, and there is no possibility of fraud.

It is said that when Kakashi applied for graduation, even the third Hokage was shocked.

Konoha has one more genius ninja.

The cradle of genius.

Many ninja villages call Konoha that.

Shiraishi doesn't think there's anything wrong with that.

"And what about our gifts? Today's party is also for me and Ruri to become a ninja. ”

"Got it, it's already ready."

That's right, this party is not only to celebrate Kakashi's graduation from the ninja school and officially becoming a shinobi, but also to celebrate Ruri and Ayane becoming a shinobi.

Shiraishi delivers the gift box to Ruri and Ayane.

Ruri and Ayane were satisfied.

"Ruri and Ayane have both become shinobi, and it seems that it is not far from the separation of our team."

Shuo Mao sighed lightly at this time, and there was a lot of regret in his tone.

He really wanted to maintain the original lineup of the Shuo Mao team, but Ruri and Ayane's identities were too special.

And the reason why the two of them joined his team was not without the meaning of Uchiha and Hinata, it was an experience.

They have become ninjas, and their training career in the Shuomao team is naturally coming to an end.

The current strength of the two of them, Shuo Mao no longer has the ability to guide them, and facing these two at the same time, maybe he will also be defeated.

However, seeing that there were two more powerful new forces in the village, the depression in Shuo Mao's heart was also swept away.

Rejoice in the prosperity of Konoha.

Therefore, for Shuomao, this gathering is also an important farewell ceremony.

Over there, Kakashi also gave the gift he and Sakumo had prepared to Ruri and Ayane.

At this moment, Shiraishi took out the last gift box from the gift bag, put it in front of Shuo Mao, and said with a smile, "So I prepared four gifts." Take it, Mr. Shuomao. ”

Shuo Mao was slightly stunned, and then accepted the gift with a smile.

"I'm still as careful as before, and I'll be a good man in the future. Then I'll take it politely. ”

Before Shiraishi could speak, Ayane had already smiled and said, "Of course, I am the most authoritative in this regard. ”

Liuli had a cold face, and there was a terrifying murderous aura in her eyes.

Ayane sat there elegantly unconcerned, unaffected by Ruri's murderous aura in the slightest.

"Looks like you've forgotten who's on top."

"If you get angry a lot, your skin will age easily."

The anger was instantly generated between the two of them.

Kakashi looked at the murderous two women and patted Shiraishi on the shoulder.

"The world of my predecessors is really colorful."

"Don't speak in the tone of an adult."

Shiraishi glanced at him helplessly.

"Good work."

"It's still not cute at all. If it goes on like this, there will be no popularity. ”

Kakashi has no opinion on this, his popularity is indeed average.

Aside from his acquaintance with the members of the Shuomao team, there weren't many people he could communicate with.

Even in the ninja school, there are only a few people.

Most people shy away from him as a 'genius'.

"I don't need those things, my goal is to surpass my father."

Kakashi said earnestly.

"Knife training is very painful, especially the knife skills of Mr. Shuo Mao. I've been trained before, but it's been too difficult to stick to it. ”

"So you're still a shinobi now."

“……”

There is no way to refute it.

"I'm a medical ninja, I don't need a lot of strength, I can run away, I can use medical ninjutsu. The menial work of fighting is not something that medical ninjas do. ”

Shiraishi takes pride in being a medical ninja.

Kakashi didn't say anything, ninjas determine the existence of the level based on strength.

Purely evaluated by medical ninjutsu, Shiraishi does have the qualifications to become a middle ninja.

But...... Among Konoha, there is no special treatment for medical ninjas to be rated separately.

However, the role of medical ninjas is not judged by lower ninja, middle ninja and upper ninja.

For most medical ninjas, there is no difference between the judgment of lower ninja, middle ninja, and upper ninja, and the level of medical ninjutsu they have mastered is the key.

Not everyone is like Tsunade among the three ninjas, and on the premise of maintaining extremely strong combat ability, medical ninjutsu is still at its peak.

Next, everyone ended the conversation and happily enjoyed the delicious taste of ramen.

In the end, of course, it was Shuomao who paid.

After paying the money, Shuomao breathed a sigh of relief to some extent, after this gathering, Shuomao's team was almost on the verge of disbanding, and could finally get rid of the entanglement of the Queen of Big Stomachs.

In the past three years, he has already had a psychological shadow on paying for treats.

But then came a tight reluctance.

In the past three years, the task completion rate of the Shuomao team is 100%, whether it is a difficult A-level mission or the highest difficulty S-level mission, it is very beautiful to complete.

No matter what kind of enemy is encountered, equal disappearance will be given in silence.

The name of Konoha White Fang naturally went to the next level, which made the ninja villages of various countries very jealous, and people kept coming to spy on his information, wanting to make a suitable tactic to kill Shuo Mao.

But I also know that even if I make a strategy to kill Shuo Mao, it is extremely difficult.

They were deeply troubled by how to get rid of this kind of thing.

Because of this, even the two girls in the team have become famous, letting people know the powerful heritage of the wealthy ninja clan, and there are two more genius ninjas in Konoha, which makes the villages jealous and full of the urge to destroy these geniuses.

As for the medical ninja Shiraishi in the team, he is still overlooked.

Medical ninjas don't care.

If it's a medical ninja of Tsunade's level, it's naturally a different matter, but unfortunately Shiraishi isn't.